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Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Massive change to MSSA's Regional Championships.

South
Africa has 56
regions within the nine provinces. The districts are the
municipal districts as defined by the South African government.
The Minister
of Sport and Recreation considers growth at the Regions as
vital to the growth of sport in South Africa as a whole.

Thus
MSSA has implemented the policy of holding Regional Championships. It
is hoped that the Regional Championships will be expanded to each and
every region in the country, as the championships will undoubtedly
help:

Strengthen
clubs that are in each region,

Encourage
clubs to grow in regions that as yet do not have member clubs, and

Allow
a greater base of players to participate in official MSSA
championships without having to travel vast distances.

Thus,
considering that Regional Championships are to be used as a vehicle
to increase MSSA's footprint across the country, MSSA has decided that for the remainder of the year any player (whether
affiliated or not to a member club) be allowed to enter any MSSA
Regional Championship subject to an additional payment of R20.00 per
player per game, and on completing (in its entirety) an 'Associate
Player Registration Form'. .

Such decision will allow such gamers to win medals, and to earn Regional
Colours, but will not extend to any other benefit of membership such
as qualifying for National team Trials, voting rights, and so forth.

Also,
such additional payment shall not be retained by the host club, but
shall be paid by such host club directly into MSSA's bank account.